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2:41:54 PM    

I finally get to break somethign before Clay, Ross or jason C.

Quazal has launched a new service called Rendez-vous - a lobby service - for on-line gaming.

Welcome to the world of on-line gaming and social software.

These folks at Quazal offer an on-line gaming 'state' engine (called Net-Z), as well as MMOG (massively multi-player on-line game) infrastrcture technology (called Eterna.)  Now they've complemented their product line with a social networking kind of 'lobby service'. Totally coolio!

Provided Services

• Authentication: manages player logins and ensures the integrity and confidentiality of data sent across the network.
• Secure Connection: establishes a secure connection between two stations. This connection may be made either directly or routed via a secure station, which is usually the server. In conjunction with the Authentication service this service creates a secure transport layer.
• Account Management: enables players to create lobby account(s) and allocates various access rights.
• Matchmaking: enables players to search for and locate various gatherings in order to participate in game, competition, tournament, chat, or forum sessions, for example.
• Competition: manages the organisation and outcomes of matches played between players as well as pertinent statistical values concerning any given competition.
• Friends: enables players to classify their relationship with other players and to create categorized player lists, e.g. Friend, BlackListed.
• Messaging: enables players to send messages to each other in much the same way as e-mail.
• Persistent Store: enables players to download content from and upload content to the lobby.
• Peer: this service is provided by one client to another and enables messages and station specific information to be shared between the two stations.
• Cluster Management: monitors and controls configuration of the ensemble of lobby services. This service is accessed by the lobby administrator via the Rendez-Vous management console. Players do not use this service.

I wonder if they know anything about Apple's Rendezvous Probably not.  What a great example of folks in the gaming world - nothaving a lcue on what's going on in the PC world.  Probably doesn't matter though.

As a coinkidink - this sort of matching, management, tournament stuff is.... (ooooops gotta shut up now.)

10:12:51 AM